1/31/2011

"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation. How could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?"

James OrengoKenya Minister Of Lands

A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's parliament last month that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."

During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:

Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to "ethnic consideration and objectives."

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Yes and Kenya is known for their stellar record-keeping -- I'm sure this will settle everything. After all, it appeared on WND! My grandmother referred to Ireland as her 'home country' but she was born in Wisconsin. Really, she was! I'm sure the Irish would have loved to have claimed that JFK was born there too.

The Mosoriot HIV clinic is one of 18 rural clinics in western Kenya pioneering standardized, electronic record-keeping. In the past, only paper records were kept - which meant that if files were lost, or patients moved without them, there was no record of their critical health information. The programme, which now serves 40 000 patients, was developed through a partnership between Moi University in Eldoret and Indiana University, with assistance from WHO.